Exodus 20:1-17 - The Ten Commandments

¹ God spoke all these words: ² I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt. ³ Do not have any other god. ⁴ Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water. ⁵ Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. ⁶ I show mercy (loving kindness) to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments. ⁷ Never use the name of Jehovah your God in a false and evil way. Jehovah will make sure that anyone who is false, evil, careless and vain with his name will be punished. ⁸ Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. ⁹ You have six days to do all your work. ¹⁰ The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. ¹¹ Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them in six days. He rested on the seventh day. Therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. ¹² Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you. ¹³ Do not murder. ¹⁴ Do not commit adultery. ¹⁵ Do not steal. ¹⁶ Do not (lie) accuse anyone falsely. ¹⁷ Do not covet (desire) another man's house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

⁶ I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ⁷ Do not have any other god but me. ⁸ Do not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above, or on the earth below, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: ⁹ Do not bow down to them. Do not serve them! For I Jehovah your God am a totally demanding zealous God. I require exclusive devotion and punish the fathers and children who hate me to the third and fourth generation. ¹⁰ I show loving kindness to thousands of generations who love me and obey my commandments. ¹¹ Do not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain. Jehovah will not leave him unpunished who takes his name in vain. ¹² Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it (keep it holy), as Jehovah your God has commanded you. ¹³ Do all your work in six days. ¹⁴ The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do. ¹⁵ Remember that you were servants in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah your God brought you out through a mighty act. Jehovah your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. ¹⁶ Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you. ¹⁷ Do not kill. ¹⁸ Do not commit adultery. ¹⁹ Do not steal. ²⁰ Do not bear false witness against another man. ²¹ Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.'